Author: FAC Contributor #3

A man in jail for a probation violation on a failure to register as a sex offender arising from a case 20 years ago was beaten to death by his cellmate this week in a Georgia jail. SOURCE

There are at least four websites currently offering for sale merchandise with the message “Kill a Pedophile.”  The websites are Amazon, Etsy, Killer Culture Shop and Scratshirt.  Merchandise being sold on these websites includes clothing and/or stickers. “The logos on some of the merchandise being sold include graphics of a person aiming a gun at the head of a bound

Certain advocacy groups, including WAR are organizing a peaceful protest on Thursday, September 24, 2020, in front of the 10th Circuit Appeals Court building in Colorado. The purpose will be to protest the 10th Circuit’s ruling in Millard v Rankin. The message to the court will be that the registry IS punishment. We originally re-posted the complete message from WAR,

Florida Senator Lauren Book, the state’s most vocal proponent for harsh sex offender restrictions, has made some interesting comments lately. In a feature she wrote for Social Miami about children wearing masks to prevent the spread of COVID, she wrote that “stranger danger” is usually not a factor in child abductions or sexual assaults. While most laws restrict those required to

The following are the comments submitted by the Florida Action Committee to the proposed SORNA changes: RE:     DOCKET NO. OAG 157 – COMMENTS ON SORNA I am President of the Florida Action Committee (FAC). We are a 2000+ member non-profit organization that advocates for public safety and laws based on empirical research. Among our members are persons required to register

Sadly, the homeless registrants in Miami-Dade lost their appeal to the 11th Circuit in a decision returned today. The loss was on a technicality – whether the suit can be construed as an “as applied” challenge vs. a “facial challenge”. The 11th circuit’s decision was that the plaintiffs didn’t bring their case “as applied” to the John Doe plaintiffs from

“U.S. Marshals Find 39 Missing Children in Georgia During ‘Operation Not Forgotten,’” proclaimed the government’s official press release. Federal agents and local law enforcement, it said, had rescued 26 children, “safely located” 13 more and arrested nine perpetrators, some of whom were charged with sex trafficking. The facts of the operation weren’t clear (what does “safely located” mean, exactly?), but

Two weeks ago, NPR ran a print and audio story about people with past sex offense convictions that was so poorly researched and interrogated that I felt compelled to write a lengthy response to the article’s many problems. You can read that article (which contains a link to her reporting) here. I had reached out (politely) on Twitter to ask

A new Study by Danielle Arlanda Harris and Jill Levenson finds that our current practices likely and paradoxically increase risk for reoffending by producing traumatic stress that leads to emotional dysregulation. In recent years, there has been a rapid expansion of increasingly restrictive laws managing the post release behavior and movement of individuals convicted of sexual offenses. In the US,

A clerical error kept a man (convicted as a child) on the sex offender registry for years after he should have been removed. Watch the emotion as he describes how his life has been and the years he has lost living with the stigma of registration.